What was the Contract with America? How did President Clinton respond to Republican efforts to implement the programs outlined in the Contract?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. The Republican Contract with America called for welfare reform, a balanced budget, more prisons and longer sentences, increased defense spending, an end to legal abortion, and other conservative measures.
2. Republican victories in the 1994 mid-term election gave them control of both houses of Congress.
3. The new Republican Congress passed a large tax cut and a tough anticrime bill, increased military spending, and reduced federal regulatory power over the environment.
4. Clinton used his veto power to limit the Republican agenda, but he also took on some conservative issues as his own, such as free trade and welfare reform.
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Muslim rule in India
a. maintained a close alliance with Baghdad. b. was totally assimilated into Hindu culture. c. employed many Hindus in powerful positions within the government. d. reserved most of the high posts in the central government and the provinces for Muslims. e. never made use of Hindus on any level of government.
The German occupation of Czechoslovakia had what effect on Roosevelt?
a. He no longer professed impartiality in the impending European struggle. b. He had Congress rescind the Neutrality Acts. c. He worked to appease Hitler to avoid further conquests. d. He blamed Czechoslovakia for provoking the attack. e. It intensified his isolationist sentiments and desire to stay out of Europe's problems.
While the Old South was a diverse region of the United States, it was united in its
A. dependence on staple crops such as tobacco, cotton, and rice. B. belief that slavery was central only to the economy and not to southern culture and identity. C. belief in the 1830s that slavery was on the decline. D. dependence on the labor of women.
In 332 BCE Egypt was conquered by:
A) Ptolemy. B) Alexander the Great. C) Abu Abdallah Ibn Battuta. D) Muhammad.